 The Incidence of Increased Unemployment in the Group of Seven, 1970-1994Archive Discussion Papers from Birkbeck, Department of Economics, Mathematics & Statistics Abstract: This paper looks at changes in the distribution of unemployment across education groups in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US. The rate of unemployment among the less educated is higher than among those with more education in all the countries, with the exception of Italy. Moreover, there has been a marked increase in their relative unemployment rates since 1970. This rise in relative unemployment is correlated with a rise in a measure of welfare-state spending as a ratio to GDP, and a fall in the share of manufacturing in total civilian employment. We fin that the rise in relative manufacturing productivity may be an important causal variable. Finally, the relative size of the education groups does not appear to influence significantly the rate of unemployment in each group. This suggests that an educational upgrading of the labour force may reduce overall unemployment. Keywords: Unskilled unemployment; educational upgrading; welfare state; manufacturing employment. (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bbk:bbkewp:9621 Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Archive Discussion Papers from Birkbeck, Department of Economics, Mathematics & Statistics Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK. |
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